Firebomb attacks in northern Greek city target residences of governing party members

Three pre-dawn firebomb attacks apparently targeting the residences of members of Greece’s governing conservative New Democracy party have left five people hospitalized, with one in serious condition, authorities said Wednesday.

The attacks between 4 a.m. and 4:45 a.m. outside apartment buildings in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki used crude explosive devices made with camping gas canisters.

All the injuries were sustained from the last of the three attacks, where cars and motorcycles were set ablaze, police said.

One of the cars reportedly was owned by a parliamentary candidate for the New Democracy party. The candidate suffered burns and her mother was hospitalized in intensive care with burns, police said.

Three other residents in the apartment building were hospitalized with smoke inhalation, police said.

“The world of New Democracy will not be terrorized,” the party’s political committee secretary Konstantinos Kyranakis said in a statement.

The attacks “were a proper terrorist